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I've never even seen a great set fight or a great set meltdown. I seem to always be on these incredibly relaxed sets.
Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.
I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.
If something's really selfless, then there's really no value in it for you... there's only value in it for the world.
Take my love, take my land. Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me.
You might not have the biggest budget or resources or cast, but if you have a great story, people will latch onto it.
It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.
My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.
I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!
Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.
The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.
There is a religion around 'Star Wars' that is different than even the fanaticism around comic books and other media.
I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.
If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.
I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.
Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.
Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.
I'm interested in how small the world really is, and this notion that what happens in one place affects someone else.
I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
One of my earliest memories is seeing a 'Godzilla' movie - not just my earliest movie memory, but any kind of memory.
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.
Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances.
I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.
Most superheroes, when you look at origin stories - before they invent their costume, they just go with what's around.
It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.
I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.
I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.
'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.
Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.
I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.
I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.
The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that with The Avengers.
Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.
You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.
If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.
War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.
Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.
The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.